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Having set the pace by victimizing 12-year-old Brianna Lahara, the four members of the Big Music record label cartel say they're equally OK with suing children in Britain Brianna and her mother live in a New York housing project. Last year, Mrs. Lahara paid $2000 to the cartel's trade group, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)....
A number of high-powered tech companies have banded together to create a "common antipiracy language." Ignoring the reality that if you can hear it, you can copy it, members of the Coral Consortium want to come up with a set of technology specifications "that will let different kinds of copy protection be translated into other varieties," CNET News...
You knew it was coming, and now it's here -- the latest evil spurred by the latest Microsoft security hole It's called the JpegOfDeath, but JPEG isn't all it threatens....
Bill Xia, CEO of Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT), a company which runs services aimed at allowing Chinese people to access unfiltered news, says Google is helping Chinese authorities to maintain an online "matrix" that keeps people from finding out what's happening outside the country's borders DIT was founded in 2001 to provide low-cost, reliabl...
By selling "product" at half price, RealNetworks has climbed into second place in the corporate music market dominated by Apple That was Real's claim at the conclusion of its 49-cents-a-pop download offer, under which it sold three million tracks to spotlight its Harmony application that lets songs downloaded through RealNetworks play on Apple's iP...
Through its RIAA (Recording Industry Association) and MPAA (Motion Picture Association) enforcement units, the entertainment industry has been riding rough-shod over consumers ever since Napster -- the original, not the ghastly Napster II -- showed up online Napster's appearance represented the first act in a commercial revolution that pits ordinar...
It's the dripping tap principal. Eventually, you can't hear anythingelse Repeat something continually and people -- including the mainstream printand electronic media -- will start to believe it, particularly if whatyou're saying comes nicely wrapped in a study....
P2P operators aren't responsible for their users' online file-swapping activities, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled in the landmark MGM v. Grokster decision Still, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) boss Mitch Bainwol says, "This decision does nothing to absolve these businesses from their responsibility as corporat...
Troubled Roxio, owner of the equally troubled Napster 2, is deceased. Or, rather, it's dropping the Roxio part and is taking a second shot at using the Napster name to revive its failing fortunes The firm has been tottering along for months, issuing statements based more on hope than reality and clearly looking to Napster 2 -- which, truth be known...
At 5 a.m., German police kicked in the front door of the modest apartmenthouse in working-class Essen and, guns drawn, ordered an unsuspectingfamily out of bed. Then they hauled off a 22-year-old college student ashis stunned parents watched The intro is from a Boston Globe story that continues: "This wasn't a scene from a big-screen police thrille...
"RealNetworks, Inc. is delighted by initial consumer and music industry support for Harmony." "We are stunned that RealNetworks has adopted the tactics and ethics of a hacker."
A trade group of technology companies has issued a policy statement urging Congress to take a close look at the controversial, so-called Induce Act The Business Software Alliance (BSA) adopted a policy urging that "U.S. Senate legislation introduced to stem the growth of online piracy [Induce] should be clarified to ensure that it is properly balan...
U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch and other parties with a stake in the peer-to-peer (P2P) warsshould meet with commercial P2P industry companies to talk about the so-calledINDUCE Act This is the point of view expressed by StreamCast Networks CEO Mike Weiss, one of several industry leaders who oppose the act as overreaching. He questions why no one from the in...
Morpheus owner StreamCast Networks has signed a deal with SovereignArtists and SML under which tracks from the rock band Heart's "Jupiter's Darling" album are being offered on Morpheus in SML's Weed format. Each track is in Microsoft's Windows Media Audio format and comes wrapped with Microsoft's digital-rights management (DRM) technology But Sover...
Thanks to the combined powers of music and the Internet, anywhere between 8 million and 9.5 million people around the world are logged on to peer-to-peer file-sharing networks at any given moment. And, at a conservative estimate, some 1 billion files are being swapped online between and among music lovers Big Music claims this is directly responsib...
The entertainment industry, with the Big Five record labels and majormovie studios to the fore, is one of the wealthiest corporate sectors inthe world. And yet it's in deep trouble, or so it says, the latestcomplaints emanating from Big Music spokesman Mitch Bainwol in a letterto the US Senate demanding that the Hollywood-inspired INDUCE Act on copyright infringement be adopted.
A massive new multi-million-dollar anti-DVD piracy campaign riding on the back of the UK premier of "Spider-Man 2" seeks to make a questionable link between illegal file sharing and organized crime, triads and terrorists The aim of the campaign by Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) is to "make consumers aware that pirated copies of movies so...
There was an interesting article in the New York Times over the weekend. Called "From a High-Tech System, Low-Fi Music," its focus was on compressed music files that are lossy by virtue of the fact that they've been compressed and, hence, are missing information So people who use iTunes for their iPods aren't getting value for money, the story sugg...
What's so great about the 70 million or so downloads Apple says iTunes managed in more than a year, compared to the one billion (at a conservative estimate) that happen on the peer-to-peer networks every month? The "one billion" figure, which comes from industry observer Big Champagne, helps make the point that downloads from iTunes and the other plastic online music stores supplied by the Big Five record labels don't amount to a hill of beans.
It's deja vu all over again. Napster 2 in Europe reloaded as the mainstream media players fell over each other to carry Big Music's message that the joyless online music stores it supplies and backs are all there is to online music. Only this time, instead of Napster 2, it's Apple's iTunes Not to be outdone, Sony has arranged things so "product" fr...
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